3. Neoclassicism and other trends

Routes

Former Hotel París. (Sant Pere, 1). Baroque building planned in 1767 by Pere M.Cermeño, the same engineer behind the construction of Sant Ferran Castle.

Casa Caselles. (Rambla, 22). A house built in 1930 to a project by the architect Joan Gumà Cuevas. The building could be classified as lying within a beaux arts eclecticism characteristic of the antimodernist reaction of he period around teh 1929 Great Exhibition in Barcelona.

Municipal Theatre El Jardí. (Plaça Josep Pla, 2). Noucentista building with a considerable historicist charge with predominance of the Ionic order, built in 1914 to a plan by the architect Llorenç Ros i costa.

Casa de Romà. (Peralada, 48). This building dates from the first half of the 19th century, though its author is unknown. It is a neoclassical stately home with rear garden which up till the civil war had been the home of a family of Empordà landowners.

Casino Menestral. (Ample, 17). Eclectic in style, this building was planned in 1904, probably by the architect Josep Bori, to become the headquarters of the Societat Casino Menestral de Figuerenc, founded in 1856 in order to promote friendly relations between the middle-class residents and disseminate Enlightenment ideas among itsassociates.